When Reality Feels Like Playing a Game, a New Era Has Begun


	When Reality Feels Like Playing a Game, a New Era Has Begun

mbrandewinder

10-27-2007 11:32 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/558f97de-43b4-4dae-b266-3098a3b283e8/97878A2B-E29A-444D-A2CE-0526ECEB544A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/15-11/st_essay" href="http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/15-11/st_essay" style="font-size: 11px;">www.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/15-11/st_essay">From the military's use of <CITE>America's Army</CITE> for recruiting to quarterbacks researching tactics via <CITE>Madden NFL</CITE>, we've gone from games <EM>representing</EM> life to <EM>becoming</EM> life. Ask yourself: Do you believe that your club moves have improved from playing <CITE>Dance Dance Revolution</CITE>? Have your driving skills matured because of <CITE>Gran Turismo</CITE>? Does cleaning out your RSS reader remind you of playing <CITE>Pac-Man</CITE>? Does the action of the iPhone's bouncing icons recall <CITE>Mario Bros.</CITE>? Have you tried to convince your friends that the invasion of Sudoku and <CITE>Tetris</CITE> into your dreams is proof of high-level brain activity? Welcome to the arcade called you.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/15-11/st_essay">the basics of gameplay — competing against opponents, setting records, winning prizes — are as old as human civilization. But the gaming mindset has now become pervasive.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/15-11/st_essay">Our online lives are just twists on the videogame leaderboards, where we jockey to get our blog a higher rank on Technorati and compete to acquire more friend-adds on MySpace than the next guy.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/97878A2B-E29A-444D-A2CE-0526ECEB544A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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